Hello. The last few days, I noticed ata2 errors in my old Debian/Linux box's dmesg and I worried about them. Does that mean my HDD(s) is/are failing? .... ...

Ok, I have now changed the load cycle timeout on my WD5000AADS to never without any problem. A quick web-serach for the tool used (WDIDLE3) revealed that this...

Dear all, I have a WD5000AADS that I pulled form an external enclosure. This drive has about 200'000 load-cycles after 6 months use in a desktop and is slowly...

I hope this isn't too stupid a question. OEM vs. Retail hard drive. I'm not concerned about the warranty, but that I've never installed a SATA drive before...

Hello to everyone!! Just came back from holidays and first day at job started with a server failure!!!:mad::mad: It is a poweredge 2600 server which we had it...

Hi. Something baffles me. Perhaps someone here can explain it. If I go to the properties of my C drive on my laptop, the size reported is smaller than the...

I have a new 1tb Seagate 3.5" drive that periodically is going into some kind of access mode where something internally is pulsing twice a second... yet...

I just talked to my friend who gave me the Dell computer, and he said that his repair guy told him the reason his harddrive failed may (likely?) have been a...

I have a USB external CD/DVD writer. Its fan has a bad bearing and sounds like a helicopter. Can I just take the fan out? Is it really needed? Home...

I bought Samsung 1.5 GB HDD and put it to the enclosure with E-Sata/USB interface. If connected by E-Sata the disc is recognized OK. If I use USB connection,...

At one point, we had about 10 WD 150 GB 3.5" raptors around here. The 7th one failed yesterday with the click of death. Are others experiencing this massive...

All the SATA drives now seem to be SATA 3 Gb/s or higher. My Dell Inspiron 4600 without a hard drive that a friend gave me was sold in January 2004. It's...

Hello. I have a client who is currently disappointed with his two last USB flash drives/sticks that broke from their keychain holes due to heavy keys. He...

I have a perplexing problem here. I went on vacation outside of the country, and when I got back my Windows 7 desktop lost almost all of its user login...

Ha, found it again. Pretty interesting and conclusive. They do not fear naming names, I guess they are not afraid of being sued. They do have failure rates...

Can I put a SATA card in computer that doesn't have a SATA bus Hi, I want to install a SATA card with external ports in my current computer, so that I can...

I use direct access files, meaning updated in place, for many purposes including: . email storage . USENET article storage . virtual disks Will TRIM...

My friend has a Win XP PowerSpec B647 desktop with two 250 GB hard drives configured in the BIOS as RAID0. It appears that whatever happens to one drive...

Intel 160 GB ssd drive now $425: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167017 OK, this is getting very close to my buy point. Very...

I have this setup (generic internal DVD writer put in a external case with firwire connection) that worked fine in the past. I took the DVD out and connected...